Job description

DroneDeploy is the reality capture platform for the world s largest projects. More than 40% of the ENR Top 400 construction contractors run on it, alongside energy, mining, and agriculture customers mapping some of the biggest sites on earth. The Aerial team sits at the core of the platform: the processing pipeline that turns thousands of raw drone images into a georeferenced map, the geospatial foundation that makes those maps survey-grade, and the systems that serve imagery, terrain, and measurements at scale. Almost every customer s work starts with something this team built. The team behind it is senior and technically deep and the opportunity ahead is bigger than ever. We re looking for a leader who raises the bar: takes on the most ambitious technical work and proves its impact, gets new capabilities to customers quickly, and shapes how a modern engineering team builds with AI. You don t need to arrive as a geospatial expert, because the team has that depth. You need to be the leader who makes a great team even better. What You ll Do: Lead the team to deliver large, business-critical, technical initiatives through to completion. Define what success looks like up front and show it in the numbers. Make a strong team stronger. Focus a senior, distributed team on the highest-impact problems, and grow engineers into technical leaders with broader scope. Evolve how the team works with AI. Lead from the front with AI in your own work, then make small, AI-heavy pods the way the team builds: planning, prototyping, debugging, and shipping. Own the Aerial experience. Partner with Product to shape and sequence the roadmap, and own the customer outcome end to end. Stay hands-on. PRs, prototypes, and debugging alongside the team. Set technical direction with the team s principal engineer, from architecture and boundaries to platform investment. Own quality and reliability through metrics and observability, so problems surface before customers find them. Represent Aerial to leadership and customers, including site visits. What We re Looking For: 8 years of engineering experience and 5 years leading engineers, including senior and staff-level ICs Complex, multi-quarter technical programs finished predictably, with clear success metrics A record of making strong teams stronger. You can point to the engineers who grew and the output that followed Hands-on technical depth across web, backend, and cloud systems. You still read and write code, and you re comfortable enough with the underlying math and data to question the results AI as a primary working partner across coding, prototyping, and analysis, and evidence that you changed how a team works because of it A record of ramping quickly into complex, unfamiliar technical domains Customer focus that shows up in product and UX decisions Nice to Have Experience with geospatial, mapping, 3D, imagery, or other data-intensive systems at scale Experience in survey, construction, energy, or other industries where being wrong has real consequences for the customer Drone/UAV experience or a Part 107 certificate Additional Information Base Pay Range: 198,240.00 - 272,580.00 USD Annual This role may also be eligible for Equity Compensation and/or Bonus Incentive Compensation. Procore is committed to offering competitive, fair, and commensurate compensation. Actual compensation will be based on a candidate’s job-related skills, experience, education or training, and location. For Los Angeles County (unincorporated) Candidates: Procore will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with arrest or conviction records, in accordance with the requirements of applicable federal, state, and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers, and the California Fair Chance Act. A criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment: 1. appropriately managing, accessing, and handling confidential information including proprietary and trade secret information, as well as accessing Procore s information technology systems and platforms; 2. interacting with and occasionally having unsupervised contact with internal/external customers, stakeholders, and/or colleagues; and 3. exercising sound judgment.

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What You ll Do: Lead the team to deliver large, business-critical, technical initiatives through to completion. Define what success looks like up front and show it in the numbers.
Make a strong team stronger. Focus a senior, distributed team on the highest-impact problems, and grow engineers into technical leaders with broader scope.
Evolve how the team works with AI. Lead from the front with AI in your own work, then make small, AI-heavy pods the way the team builds: planning, prototyping, debugging, and shipping.
Own the Aerial experience. Partner with Product to shape and sequence the roadmap, and own the customer outcome end to end.
Stay hands-on. PRs, prototypes, and debugging alongside the team. Set technical direction with the team s principal engineer, from architecture and boundaries to platform investment.
Own quality and reliability through metrics and observability, so problems surface before customers find them.
Represent Aerial to leadership and customers, including site visits.
What We re Looking For: 8 years of engineering experience and 5 years leading engineers, including senior and staff-level ICs
Complex, multi-quarter technical programs finished predictably, with clear success metrics
A record of making strong teams stronger. You can point to the engineers who grew and the output that followed
Hands-on technical depth across web, backend, and cloud systems. You still read and write code, and you re comfortable enough with the underlying math and data to question the results
AI as a primary working partner across coding, prototyping, and analysis, and evidence that you changed how a team works because of it
A record of ramping quickly into complex, unfamiliar technical domains
Customer focus that shows up in product and UX decisions
Experience in survey, construction, energy, or other industries where being wrong has real consequences for the customer
Drone/UAV experience or a Part 107 certificate
Additional Information
198,240.00 - 272,580.00 USD Annual

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Nice to Have Experience with geospatial, mapping, 3D, imagery, or other data-intensive systems at scale

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